earlier this year under pressure of a major boycott effort they would stop pushing voter suppression efforts through the states, through the republican state legislatures. the group that said they would take up the mantel after alec dropped it was this group. the national center for public policy research. you may remember them getting famous in the jack abramoff scandal as their role as a pass through for abramoff, for perks he wanted to spreads around on behalf of his corporate lobbying clients. here s how the washington post reported on their involvement in the scandal at the time. as far back as 1996, abramoff was using the national center for public policy research to hide the source of funding for trips and other ventures intended to boost the interests of his lobbying clients. that group still exists. and even though they acknowledged their role in the abramoff scandal at the time, they now get very upset when anyone tries to link them to the scandal. they just published their f
mitt romney, in the republican coalition, more resistant to mitt romney in the republican presidential primaries, he had a nomination locked up and still voting for rick santorum in primaries. it s a huge group, about 44% of the republican party. they are very hostile to mitt romney and equally or much more hostile to barack obama. so romney himself can t go to that group with much credibility but a guy like ralph reed, believe it or not, still can. i look at the to serial if reed and tim phillips and these anti-voting rights people out there at the same time, to me it s like the rats who survived the sinking ss abramoff. i can t believe they are in public at all. but their very survival maybe ought to be sentiment to how good they are at playing the political game. as a liberal i look at the right like that and think, wow, rib brals cannot survive hardball
politics stuff. am i just being liberal about that, though? is the left just as good at playing this game? i think we re seeing real differences between the two parties. voter i.d., when we talk about the effect that that could have this fall. i don t know the right way to say this but there s a tradition in american politics where, look, not everybody is going to vote in every election. both sides say, this is the group that we need to have turn out. maybe it would be better if that group didn t tuvote in big numbers. both sides are equally guilty of that. it s been taken to a different level this year and the last couple of years, the republicans saying, okay, these are the groups we need to vote. these are the groups we don t need to vote. we are going to x into law provisions that will help our people and hurt their people. that s completely different. that is not an equal opportunity. that is not one side. that s one side is doing it and the other isn t and republicans as we are
would stop pushing voter suppression efforts through the states, through the republican state legislatures. the group that said they would take up the mantel after alec dropped it was this group. the national center for public policy research. you may remember them getting famous in the jack abramoff scandal as their role as a pass through for abramoff, for perks he wanted to spreads around on behalf of his corporate lobbying clients. here s how the washington post reported on their involvement in the scandal at the time. as far back as 1996, abramoff was using the national center for public policy research to hide the source of funding for trips and other ventures intended to boost the interests of his lobbying clients. that group still exists. and even though they acknowledged their role in the abramoff scandal at the time, they now get very upset when anyone tries to link them to the scandal. they just published their first paper on voting laws.
folks folks, there s been so many conservative theories about voter i.d. laws out there, but there s a new one that could prove to be the most ridiculous yet. according to a brand new study from the national center for public policy research, blacks and the poor are the most common victims of voter fraud and would be protected by voter i.d. laws. blacks and the poor would be protected by voter i.d. laws. really? well, thanks, but no thanks. this theory would be funny if it weren t so sad. and that brings me to the man behind it. read cooper who wrote the report. back in 2009 mr. cooper was indicted on corruption charges. those charges include accepting